These prices provide value for money with delivery and complementary cues, balls, and more. We have a variety of brand new pool tables for sale and their prices vary. AT first you have the impression of a provincial town; but suddenly you wonder whose this old castle can be. Just imagine our students lunching at the very least in the Waldstein castle hall on massive old silver, served by waiters in liveries, and prepared for examinations by household professors in lecture halls equipped with all kinds of settees, arm-chairs and sofas; just imagine-but no, my young friends, never mind about this. And I have seen lawns where only the masters and not the undergraduates may walk, and staircases where only the graduates and not the students may play billiards; I have seen professors in rabbits’ fur and cloaks as red as lobsters, I have seen the graduates kneel and kiss the hand of the Vice-Chancellor; of all these wonders I have been able to make a drawing only of one venerable college provost, who poured out for me a glass of sherry at least as old as the elder Pitt.

I tell you, Caudle, a billiard-room’s a place where ruin of all sorts is made easy, I may say, to the lowest understanding, so you can’t miss it. It may be inferred that it developed from a variety of games in which propelling a ball was a main feature. The 8ft variety is ideal for bigger areas. So dedicate regular time to practice and focus on specific areas you want to improve. All I want of you is-any other man would speak to his wife, and not lie there like a log-all I want is this. The little man was always considerate, and he had noticed the flurried and nervous manner of his bookkeeper. There was my uncle Wardle; a better man never broke the bread of life: he took to billiards, and he didn’t live with aunt a month afterwards. When once a man’s given to it-as my poor aunt used to say-the devil’s always tempting him with a ball, as he tempted Eve with an apple. And that’s a ball, that night and day you’ll be destroying your family with.

That’s a ball, Caudle, that’s gone through many a wife’s heart, to say nothing of her children. Now, I’m not going to quarrel; that’s all over: I don’t feel enough for you to quarrel with,-I don’t, Caudle, as true as I’m in this bed. No; you were not at any of these places; but I know well enough where you were. Then there is a third one which is the oldest, a fourth one distinguished for scholarship, a fifth for athletic records, a sixth because it has the finest chapel, a seventh for I know not what, and as there are at least fifteen of them, I have mixed them all up; I see only the castellated palaces in Perpendicular style, the huge quadrangles, where the pupils move about in black gowns and square tasselled caps, each of whom has his two or three rooms in the wings of these castles; I see the Gothic chapels disembowelled by Protestantism, the banquet-halls with a dais for the «masters» and «fellows,» the venerable smoked portraits of earls, statesmen and poets, who went forth from there; I see the renowned «backs,» i.e. the rear of the colleges above the river Cam, over which there are bridges leading to the ancient college parks; I float on the gentle river between the «backs» and the parks, and I think of our students, of their hollow bellies and their boots down-at-heel with trudging from lecture to lecture.

And here is a second one, bigger still, with four courtyards, a park beyond the river, a cathedral of its own, a still bigger Gothic dining-hall, rafters five hundred years old, a gallery of old portraits, what is billiards still older traditions and still more famous students’ college with three names. He still met Mr. Stark outside, and played billiards with him frequently. Unfortunately, I liked the latter place very much; the colleges, there are still bigger and still older, they have beautiful quiet parks, galleries of equally famous ancestors, banquet-halls, memorials and dignified janitors, but all this display and tradition is not aimless; it would seem that the purpose of it is to train not learned specialists, but gentlemen. They also have better ball play. Don’t tell me you’ll not play! Just tell me where you were on Tuesday? It’s a chapel-of-ease for the devil to preach in-don’t tell me not to be eloquent: I don’t know what you mean, Mr. Caudle, and I shall be just as eloquent as I like. Caudle, it’s all over now; you’ve gone to destruction. The 7ft standard pool tables start at $1299.